SMYG
St. Mary's Youth Group
Youth Director
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Phone:  248-844-8665

St. Mary of the Hills Vision for Youth Ministry:
‘Empowering young people to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today.  To draw young people to responsible participation in the life, mission and work of the Catholic faith community.  And to foster the total personal and spiritual growth of each young person.’– as stated in “It takes a Whole church – Renewing the Vision”

The youth of St. Mary of the Hills represented our parish very well last weekend at the Catholic Youth Organization's thirtieth annual Rainbow Conference.  We took 33 youth this year; our group totaled 39 if you include the 6 adults that chaperoned the event.  This represents one of the 5 largest groups represented at Rainbow.  We were both a large group and a quality group; we were a group that was engaged in small group discussions, active participants in the events of the weekend, and even active in the planning of the event (one of our youth, Audrey Gotko, was on the Youth Council Team which planned the entire event).  In the closing portion of the weekend, with over 2000 attendees watching, pictures from St. Mary of the Hills service work in Detroit this past summer were front and center on the big screen televisions.  The joy that we felt in is hard to explain as the youth from St. Mary of the Hills were pictured on the “big screen” for all of the attendees to witness.    These pictures were used as a model of people making our beloved city of Detroit better.  Kudos to the youth of our parish and kudos for all of the people who lovingly support what they are doing.  We should (and are) very proud of them. 

SMYG is in the planning stages of this year’s 7th grade confirmation retreat scheduled here at St. Mary’s on March 3rd.  If you’d like to help plan this event, please let me know.

SMYG Upcoming Schedule:

February 22                                             SMYG Meeting
February 29                                             SMYG Meeting
March 3                                                   Conf. Retreat

If at anytime you have a question about an event (or anything SMYG or JYG related, please contact me.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Emergency Medical Treatment Release Form - one must be on file to attend SMYG events.

SMYG is a group of high school students who come together to build friendships and strengthen their faith by discussing timely topics in a positive environment.  We’d love to continue encouraging all high school students to give the group a try.  Remember even if you have not been to a meeting in a while that the doors are always open for new members.  Every high school age person in our parish is invited and allowed to bring friends to our meetings.  I truly hope to see YOU at one our upcoming meetings.